Most announced on Wednesday the measures it will advocate for as part of health reform, emphasizing the principle of equality and equal access to healthcare for all citizens, and rejecting speculations that they advocate for further privatization of the healthcare system.
– Accessibility and good organization of healthcare services for all citizens under equal conditions is our obligation. The right to health is a fundamental human right, the members of Most emphasize in their proposal for health reform, which encompasses basic healthcare, rationalization and financial stabilization of the system, urgent measures to stop the outflow of healthcare personnel, defining strategic projects, depoliticization, reform of the health insurance system, and hospital healthcare.
Most highlights its opposition to further privatization of the system in its statement, which, they say, is evidenced by the statements of its members from the very beginning of the campaign, as well as after the elections, when they repeatedly emphasized such a position. They also state that they advocate for a more entrepreneurial climate in healthcare, but that this is only a small segment of the healthcare system. They interpret the lack of money in the system as a consequence of several factors, including irrationalities in managing an oversized and inefficient system, for which they propose seven measures, including a new model for merging hospital activities and specific measures to stop doctors from leaving for abroad.
Among the measures, they state that they will seek a revision of the National Hospital Development Plan in the Republic of Croatia (the so-called Masterplan for Hospitals) established by the previous health administration, which, they say, has not been implemented. The plan needs to be amended in terms of integrating functional activities, rather than hospitals, along with a clear analysis of financial sustainability. The health administration should no longer have priority in creating health policy compared to other system stakeholders – employers, patient associations, chambers, unions…
Regarding hospitals, they demand urgent accreditation and certification of hospitals, as well as an analysis of the work of the Hospital Accreditation Agency or its abolition, media reports. They advocate for the adoption of a clear “National Hospital Development Plan in the Republic of Croatia,” on which consensus needs to be reached, continuous analysis of health technologies, the creation of a “Central Register of Medical Equipment” (types, years, number of procedures performed, distribution), as well as the rationalization of non-health activities. In the reform of health insurance, they will advocate for a policy of real prices for healthcare services. “The health administration must not politically determine prices,” the members of Most assert. They will seek the depoliticization of health management and leaders of health units at all levels, as well as achieving a “zero tolerance rate in healthcare towards all forms of crime, nepotism, corruption, and exploitation of social and communal resources for private interests.”
